date:Jul 09, 2014
Floods in Ivory Coast, the worlds biggest cocoa producer, are keeping trucks from delivering cocoa beans from some farms.
Rain averaged 12 millimeters (0.5 inches) a day in 15 cocoa-growing areas in the week ended 6 July, up from 7 millimeters a day the week before, according to CICO Services, an agronomy company in Abidjan, the commercial capital. Combined precipitation rose to 1,238 milliliters from 657 millimeters.
Downpours over the past month have damaged roads leading to the San Pedro po